Whiffletree-hook



(No Model.)

J. WOOD 8v W. W. HARE.

, WHIFFLETREE HOOK. No. 493,420. Patented Mar. 14, 1893.

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' ATTORNEY;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WOOD AND WILLIAM W. HARE, OF NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA.

WHlFFLETREE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 493,420, dated March14, 1893.

Applicationfiled October 28, 1892. Serial No. 450,255. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, JAMES WOOD and WILLIAM W. HARE, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Noblesville, in the county of Hamilton andState of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in-Tug-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improved device for securing the tug of aharness to the Whiffletree of a carriage.

The object of our improvement is, to provide a simple and inexpensivedevice, which may be secured to an ordinary whiflietree in such a manneras to retain the eye of the tug thereon and prevent its slipping eitherinward or outward, and which may be engaged with the tug after the tughas been engaged with the whiffletree; all as hereinafter fully setforth.

The accompanying drawings illustrate our invention.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of our improved tug-fastener.Fig. 2 represents a View in perspective, showing the fastener inposition on the whiffletree, and engaged with the tug. Fig. 3 is a viewin perspective, illustrating the manner of engaging the tug with thefastener.

In the drawings, A, represents the Whiffletree, having a smooth taperedend for receiving the eye of the tug, and formed without retainingshoulders or other devices for limiting the inward movement of the tug.The fastener consists of a piece of wire bent to form a hook having thestraight arm, B, pro- Vided at one end with an eye, O, and at the otherend with a short horizontal arm, D, forming substantially a right anglewith the arm B, and arranged in the same plane as the eye 0. The end ofarm D is then bent upward and then downward so as to embrace the upperedge and outer side of the tug, to form a hook E, arranged in a plane atright angles to the plane of the eye 0 and arm D. This device is securedto the upper surface of the whifiletree by means of a screw or rivet, F,passing through the eye 0; the arrangement being such that the arm Bextends along the whiffletree parallel with its edges, and the arm Dlies parallel with the inner face of the tug, H, and prevents its inwardmovement, While the hook, E, embraces the upper edge and outer face ofthe tug and prevents its outward movement.

In connecting the tug to the \vhiftletree, as illustrated in Fig. 3, theeye of the tug is slipped over the end of the whifiletree, and the tug,being slackened, is passed under the end of and into engagement with thehook and the straightening of the tug brings the fastening into theposition shown in Fig. 2.

We are aware of the state of the art as shown in United States PatentNo. 2%,413 and we donot clain anything shown therein, but,

We claim as our invention- In a tug-fastener, the combination of thewhiffietree, the tug having an eye adapted to receive the end of theWhifl'letree, the retaining-hook consisting of the straight arm Bpivoted to one arm of the whiffletree so as to swing in a horizontalplane thereon, the short horizontal arm D, and the open hook E adaptedto embrace the tug, all combined and arranged to co-operate in themanner set forth.

JAMES WOOD. WVILLIAM V. HARE. Witnesses:

ALEXANDER W. NIXON, JAMES WALTER SooTT.

